The point about being a fan of your local club, though, is that you kind of are born with it — all those Man Utd fans down south excepted. Still, perhaps that is an old-fashioned view. I guess my concern is that if things go wrong, MFC will just exit and find another club, as it doesn’t really matter where that club is, the fans not being local anyway.

Interesting points about the ambition and why you didn’t start your own club. I do hope it works out well for all concerned, and certainly, I’d rather my own team were bought by MFC than Thaksin or Bates.

I can see why you (and others) are being sceptical. There’s a lot of talk about us all being 1) a ‘random bunch with no connection to the club’, 2)’with no passion for the club’ and 3) who ‘are doing this for the wrong reasons’.

I can’t pretend to know all the answers but in answer to 1) When we find out which club is purchased, we will no longer be random and disconnected, we will all be fans of this club; 2)Passion for a club has to start somewhere, you aren’t born supporting a club! 3) As there is no financial gain in this for myfootballclub members, the only reason is that we want the club to succeed, so how is this the wrong reason?

Existing fans may not like the takeover; when have fans ever liked any sort of takeover, Glazer, Shiniwatra, Bates, et al? But if they find out what it is that MFC want to achieve, in time they will see that it’s the right move.

There were reasons for not starting our own club up, the main one being the objective of MFC is to get a small club up through the leagues into the Premier League. To start from scratch, whilst totally romantic, is unrealistic and unlikely to happen in most MFC’s lifetimes.

But the fact that four clubs approached MFC with the view of being bought out shows that the scheme is viable and one to be seriously considered.

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